Process for repairing billiard-cloth.



.IJNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAKE IVIANFRED STIVERS, OF SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR- T0 NATIONAL QUICK PATCH COMPANY, OF SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF PROCESS FOR REPAIRING BILLIARD-CLOTH.

MISSOURI.

Lfl 'zffiill. Specification of Letters latent.

N0 Drawing. Application filed August 8, 1913.

T0 at whom it may concern 3e it known that I, JAKE M. STIVERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, Greene county, Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Processes for Repairing Billiard- Cloth, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as Wlll enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

ihis invention relates to a process for repairing damaged billiard cloth.

The main object of my invention is to provide means for enabling billiard cloth to be repaired in such a manner that the repaired place in the cloth will be practically invisible and will have substantially the same texture or wearing surface as the bal ance of the cloth.

In repairing a hole in billiard cloth according to my process, I first fill the hole with my improved repairing composition which I will. hereafter describe. The composition is in a plastic or semipla stic condition. when it is applied so that it can be forced or beaten into the hole and smoothed out so as to form a patch of the same thickness as the cloth, that merges into the cloth at the edge of the hole. It will, of course, be understood that the billiard cloth being repaired is in operative position on a billiard-table or other hard fiat supporting surface so that when. the patching composition is forced into the hole in the cloth it will adhere to the flat supporting surface which the cloth covers after said composition has set or become solid. After the patching composition has been smoothed out so as to fill the hole evenly, an adhesive of some suitable character is spread over the composition and thereafter powdered billiard cloth of the same color as the cloth being repaired is sprinkled over the composition so as to form a top coating for same, thus forming a patch that is practically invisible and which has substantially the same texture or wearing surface as the balance of the cloth.

I prefer to form the patching composition from rubber, gum, cloth nap, and plaster Paris, and I have found in practice that a composition composed of the following ingredients mixed in approximately the proportions specified forms an efficient substance for patching billiard cloth: approxi- Patented May 19, 1914.

Serial No. 783,710.

mately 2% of rubber; approximately 2% of gum; approximately 3 of cloth nap; approximately 4% of plaster Paris. The rubber that I prefer to use is in a liquid state or condition when it is mixed with the other ingredients, and the gum that I prefer to use is liquid gum which is in a liquid state at the time the ingredients are mixed togethcr. Glue or any other suitable adhesive may be spread over the patching composition prior to sprinkling the powdered billiard cloth over the composition so as to form a top coating for same.

A composition of the character described and the process of using it, enables a hole or damaged place in billiard cloth to be re paired so effectively that the patch is invisible, it is solid, it is durable, and the repaired surface is of the same color and texture as the remainder of the cloth and is free from ridges, bumps or seams. If the billiard cloth is merely torn, or slit, I first cut the cloth away from around the tear so as to completely remove the cloth and thus form a hole in the cloth, and there after I fill the hole with my improved composition and apply a top coating to same in the manner previously described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Lettors Patent is:

1. A process for repairing a hole in billiard cloth, which consists in filling the hole with a plastic or semi-plastic substance of suitable character that will set and smooth ing it out so as to completely fill the hole and thus form a patch of the same thickness as the cloth, and imparting to the patch the same color as the cloth.

2. A process for repairing a hole in billiard cloth, which consists in filling the hole with a plastic or semi-plastic substance of suitable character that will. set and smoothing it out so as to completely fill the hole and thus form a patch of the same thick- I ness as the cloth, and thereafter applying powdered billiard cloth to said patch so as to form a top coating on same of the same color as the billiard cloth being repaired.

3. A process for repairing a hole in bilf liard cloth, which consists in filling the hole with a plastic or semi-plastic substance of suitable character that will set and smoothing it out so as to completely fill the hole and thus form a patch of the same thickness so v as the cloth applying an adhesive to said patch, and thereafter sprinkling powdered billiard cloth over said adhesive so as to impart to the patch the same color and character of surface as the cloth being repaired.

4. A process for repairing the cloth top surface of a billiard-table, which consists in cutting the cloth away from around the damaged or defective portion so as to form a hole in the cloth, filling the hole evenly with a suitable composition that will be solid and durable after it has set, and thereafter coating the top of said composition with powdered cloth of the same color as the cloth being repaired.

5. A process for repairing the cloth top surface of a billiard-table, which consists in cutting the cloth away from around the damaged or defective portion so as to form JAKE MANFRED STIVERS.

Witnesses T. OARMODY, O. H. MORRIS.

Copies of this liate'nt may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

